Jee can't recall who won the first race she worked.

and doesn't call it a day until 9 or 10 p.m.ĭates and finishes are a blur. Her day begins well before the first early bird offers a pre-dawn song. And so, Jee and her fellow volunteers stand, hour after hour. There's no sitting, partly because there's really little place to sit. The task may sound easy enough until the number of runners and number of hours are considered. This year, lingering COVID concerns mean Jee and her crew will instead hand out packets that contain ponchos, rather than drape sheets over runners. In recent years, she has been stationed maybe 80 or so yards beyond the finish and has distributed and overseen the distribution of heat sheets, the warming blankets most runners wear over their shoulders, with some using them as quasi sarongs. Jee's jobs have been varied, including things like sorting lanyards, placing medals on finishers and cutting the finishers' timing chips, which are no longer used, from their shoes. It was canceled again last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. She has missed races only for the births of her two children and, of course, everyone was sidelined in 2012 with the race canceled due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy. There were several people with stopwatches.' In the old days, you prayed and hoped you heard over the radio or (heard) the gun go off, so your time was synched. 'It was so amateurish in comparison to now,' Jee said. In other words, she stood at the finish with a stopwatch, doing her best to accurately record the times of some of the race's top finishers, each timer assigned to get the times of people finishing in specific places, such as the first-place finisher, the fourth finisher, the seventh finisher, etc.

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